Here's some trivia for you hardcore BSG fans. When someone tells you they are a fan of the new BSG, you can hit them with this trivia and prove that you are the UBER GEEK! Hey, if you're gonna be a geek might as well go all the way.
* As in the original series, Viper weapons fire is red and the Cylon Raiders' is white.
* Bodie Olmos, son of Edward James Olmos (Adama), appears in several episodes as Brendan 'Hotdog' Constanza, and shares one brief scene with his father in episode #1.5 "You Can't Go Home Again"
* "Kobol" in the ancient Persian language means "Heaven".
* In episodes #1.02, "Water" and #1.03 "Bastille Day", the Galactica crew needs to collect water from a frozen planet, a difficult job for which they seek to employ the services of prisoners traveling with the fleet. This bears a resemblance to episode #1.07 "Gun on Ice Planet Zero, part I" of the original "Battlestar Galactica" (1978) where several prisoners with arctic survival skills are brought in to help rescue a downed pilot and destroy the eponymous gun down on the ice planet.
* When Commander Adama picks up his reading glasses in episode #1.6, "Litmus", he does so from atop a Reader's Digest Condensed Book copy of "A Walk In The Park".
* Commander Adama has a shaving mirror in his cabin. This mirror is made by IKEA, and is a model called "Frack", which is the primary vulgarity in the Battlestar Galactica universe. NOTE: I have gone to the Ikea USA web site and could not confirm the existence of this item, but that does not mean it's not real. Just not on their web site. If it does exist, I WANT ONE OF THESE MIRROS FOR CHRISTMAS! HINT! HINT!
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Posted by: SteveK on December 9, 2005 09:54 PMP.S. In stock @ the White Marsh and College Park locations.
Posted by: SteveK on December 9, 2005 09:56 PMHum... you don't want much for Christmas do ya! :-)
Posted by: Joe on December 10, 2005 08:02 AMThis is great! It also takes me back to my March 25th comment (how can it possibly have been that long ago?) when I grumbled about BSG producers dissing sci-fi in interviews. How so?
The bit of trivia about the paper.
"Paper in the series have corners cut off. It is said that director 'Michael Rymer' did this during the miniseries as a reference to how he had to "cut corners" financially to make the miniseries work on a limited budget."
The octagonal paper is one of my favorite things about the show. It's a (fairly) consistent reminder that we're in a different world. But where I see an octagon, the director saw a rectangle with its corners cut off -- a point of view anchored to this world, with the implication that this world is more valid than the one being created on-screen. It's subtle, but I've never shaken the feeling that the folks who make the show just don't quite buy it, and I think the show suffers as a result.
Mind you -- I only devote this much analysis to something I care about. I'll be tuning in to the next new episode, as I'm all caught up now.
Posted by: Thomas G. Atkinson on December 11, 2005 03:12 AM